Justice

Over the years, Martin Luther King Jr.’s message has been whitewashed, boiled down to his dream that his children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Conservatives like Glen Beck like to…

After Ohio State beat Oregon in the college football championship game, packs of criminals bent on destruction and general mayhem took to the streets of Columbus, Ohio, striking fear into residents and business owners in the area and disturbing their…

It’s good to know people. Friends are invaluable guides through this rough-ass journey called life. You need people to lift you up, people to make you laugh, people to comfort your sorrows and most of all, you need people to…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has received yet another setback in federal court to his scheme of continual harassment of undocumented workers. At issue were the 80 work-site raids Arpaio conducted since 2008 that resulted in the arrests of over 700 undocumented…

In October, 2013, as the Republican shutdown of the government ground on, I launched a petition to arrest Republican Congressional leadership for seditious conspiracy. What the petition called for sounded radical to many, but the shutdown, funded by billionaires through…

Protesters are nothing but dirty hippies; that’s the first knock, right? When people take to the streets, that most clever of dismissive slurs often gets slung around just before the following pejoratives come out of the Fox News woodwork: lazy,…

Escalating tension in New York City since the choking death of Eric Garner and the deranged revenge killings of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos has solidified into two camps–#BlackLivesMatter protesters and NYPD–both rebelling against what they see as unreasonable…

The NYPD kicked and screamed when NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took away their stop-and-frisk. Police Benevolent Association leader Pat Lynch threw a tantrum when de Blasio mentioned he (wisely) has had talks with his biracial son about how to…

As we reported yesterday, young mother Veronica Rutledge was fatally shot by her 2 year old son inside an Idaho Wal-Mart. It was a terrible, tragic, improbable event that was entirely preventable. But at least two family members claim that…